David Dodge's novel is a fast-paced, entertaining page-turner that was subsequently turned into a memorable film by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. Now, Jean Buchanan's dramatisation brings it to radio. American John Robie i
Read more…If you want to create a tangled web, it isn’t always necessary to PRACTISE to deceive. Here, an off-the-cuff white lie about a smear of blood and a garage door leads two young twins to alarming assumptions about their well-meaning but not entirely b
Read more…Excuse Me While I Disappear
320K
A Dixon & Sparks mystery
Phineas Sparks is a private detective in Manhattan, Taylor Dixon is his assistant. They take on cases that are a little offbeat. A woman by the name of Laura Collins has disappeared, but her
Graham Collier calls at a boarding house at 28 Nadine Gardens asking for a 'Mr. Shapiro.' But the lady of the house says that he must have the wrong number - all his lodgers are regulars but there was no one by that name. Collier has a package for
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The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
The detective is dead
by Bill James
SNT 1995-03-18
128K
"The detective is dead" because the old process of justice doesn't work anymore. No one, including Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur, would testify at the trial; Harpur refused to n
Read more…Sleep of Death
By Malcolm Cowen
128K
A Scifi / Murder mystery in 4 parts.
Earth is overcrowded and conformist. On the Asteroid Habitat called Wladfa, a group of idealists seek to find a better, more human way to live.
But to make that vision wor
Foreign Bodies: The Martin Beck Killings
by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
128K
Dramatisation of Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo's 10-book series featuring detective Martin Beck and his colleagues in the National Police Homicide Department in Stockholm.
Read more…Spellbound - BBC Radio
By Francis Beeding
With: Hattie Morahan
Benedict Cumberbatch
128K - Stereo
Dramatised by Amanda Dalton from the Hitchcock film script by Ben Hecht and the book by Francis Beeding.
Staff at Landry House in North Yorkshire are
The Maltese Falcon
From the novel by Dashiell Hammett
Dramatized for audio by Yuri Rasovsky
128K
The Maltese Falcon first appeared in the pages of Black Mask magazine in 1929. Almost immediately it was acknowledged, not only as a great crime novel,
Read more…Four Classic Inspector Morse Dramatisations
by Colin Dexter
An occasional BBC Radio 4 series (for the Saturday Play) was made starring the voices of John Shrapnel as Morse and Robert Glenister as Lewis. The series was written by Guy Meredith and di
Read more…A former small-time crook, Jimmy Marsden, comes to see Edgar Fenton, an ex-CID who had left the force to set up his own investigative business, on a personal matter. He wants Edgar to check up on his wife - she's been putting a lot of mileage on he
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ROOM TO LET
Dr Charles was a quiet man, but when he took a room at Mrs Musgrave's house fear moved in with him. And murder.
They called it the Miracle of Marlborough Road - the case of the shot without a gun.
Who killed Dr Charles?
And ho
Read more…Sparkling Cyanide
by Agatha Christie
256K
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of a classic Agatha Christie mystery.‘There’s Rosemary, that’s for remembrance.’Published in 1945, Sparkling Cyanide is all about remembrance. It begins with six character
THE INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS,
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Michael Robson
BBC Radio 4 (Saturday Night Theater)
SNT 1977-09-24
128K
A Victorian detective thriller with Inspector Millions
The happy attendant upon the forthcoming opening of the
BBC detective program first broadcast in 1994. More information can be found here: http://www.radiolistings.co.uk/programmes/odd_body__an.html
Rats by John Antrobus
30 Minute Theater
128K - Stereo
There's been a murder, but is the cause of death merely unnatural, or supernatural? Written for and starring Patricia Hayes.
First broadcast: BBC R4, 1994
This broadcast: BBC R4X, 13 July 2013
An Easy Rawlins Mystery: Black Betty (BBC Radio Crimes)
By Walter Mosley
Dramatization
256K - Stereo
05/01/2012
A full-cast dramatisation of Walter Mosley’s classic Easy Rawlins mystery, first broadcast as part of BBC Radio 4’s ‘American Noir’ sea
Somewhere in shadowy post-war Vienna, where everyone has something to sell on the black market, lurks “the third man”, who witnessed the murder of Harry Lime.
The police don’t care to investigate, but novelist Holly Martins is haunted by the death
Read more…The Other World by Melissa Murray
BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Play - 2005-07-02
128K
A Victorian thriller in which the wife of an eminent barrister, Ruth Sutton, is found dead. It becomes clear that she has been gradually poisoned and her husband is arre
